ragetweet

English

Alternative forms

• rage-tweet, rage tweet

Etymology

From rage +‎ tweet. Compare ragequit.

Verb

ragetweet (third-person singular simple present ragetweets, present participle ragetweeting, simple past and past participle ragetweeted)

1. (transitive, intransitive, informal) To post an update to Twitter in anger.
   • 2017 October, Michael Simon, “LG V30 hands-on: A 6-inch beast with more power and fewer gimmicks”, in PC World, page 74:

     While their usefulness was debatable, they definitely gave the earlier V phones some identity, and there will certainly be a faction of LG fans who ragetweet the loss.

   • 2019, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Michael D. Shear, Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 243:

     Trump was incensed by what he heard, even if he did not follow all the details. He spent Easter Sunday morning watching Fox and rage[-]tweeting about the migrants.

   • 2019 August 8, Shannon Barbour, “LOL, Twitter Is Pissed About Netflix Hiring ‘Game of Thrones’ Writers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[1]:

     Welp. Another day, another thing for Twitter to rage-tweet about. This time, it’s all Netflix’s fault. Oh, and also, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss are to blame because people still aren’t over how they ruined the final season of Game of Thrones.

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Noun

ragetweet (countable and uncountable, plural ragetweets)

1. (informal) An update posted to Twitter in anger.
   • 2017 October 14, James Poniewozik, “How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     “Halt” understood that computing was culture. This idea — that technology is self-expression — has been cheapened through decades of faux-utopian advertising, and it rings a little sad today, after we’ve seen that culture yield social-media pile-ons, presidential ragetweets and the Gamergate harassment of female game developers like Cameron.

   • 2018, Greg Sargent, An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics, New York, NY: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page unknown:

     The answer to that question has less to do with Donald Trump than the constant crush of anguished media attention to every Trumpian rage-tweet, racist slur, authoritarian-accented threat, and expression of seething contempt for our institutions makes it seem.

   • 2019, Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, New York, NY: Free Press, →ISBN, page 169:

     The Trump curse meant this White House was in turmoil from the very first day. Unmanaged and unmanageable, this president governs by ragetweet and paranoia.

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